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Tim is at the CESA/FCSI Conference being held at the Oxford Belfry on 10th and 11th November. To keep up with all the latest reports from the conference follow us on Twitter.
With a theme focused on winning business, highlights will include Lord Digby Jones, the face of British business, shooting from the hip on the need for fundamental reform: “If Britain doesn’t become fit for purpose in the 21st century, we are dead in the water.”
Visitors arriving at Host Milan
Tim has just touched down from visiting Host in Milan.
Once he has unpacked his case the latest client news will follow.
This classy vid from Moffat is now up on youtube. (more…)
Iced Biscuits
Hot on the heels of the final of The Great British Bake Off, the BBC web site has a quiz to test your knowledge on baking.
There are only seven questions and they seem very simple at first – but – can you get them all right?
A Lollypork as reported on News Biscuit
Being in the foodservice industry we were intrigued by story on News Biscuit about the Walls Ice Cream and Walls Pork Sausage combination Lolliporks!
“Frozen food producer Wall’s has stunned the chilled treats world by unveiling the ‘Lollipork’, a mouthwatering frozen sausage on a stick,” reports News Biscuit.
We will be without power in the office on Thursday 22nd September due to tree cutting in the area. Ironically the trees are being lopped back to give clearance around the electricity lines so that we don’t lose power in the high winds over the winter months.
We will be accessing our emails remotely, and business will be as usual, so effectively it will just be the land line that is out of action. Please use mobile number 07947 280137 to contact us.
It’s not often counters get to feature in a pop video, but take a look at Jessie J’s video for ‘Who’s Laughing Now” and you’ll spot some Moffat counters strutting their stuff.
If you’re pushed for time, fast forward till about two minutes in where a young Jessie is having a tantrum in a school dining room while a ‘dinner lady’ stands sternly behind ….. a Moffat counter.
And for the next 30 seconds the Moffat counters set the backdrop for young Jessie’s antics.
Go Moffat!
Lobster ice cream from Ben and Bill
Apparently Arron Liu’s Ice Cream Gallery was a crowd favourite at this year’s edition of the Hong Kong Food Expo. Visitors were keen to try their outlandish flavours including ginger vinegar and egg ice cream, French bacon and egg ice cream and wine ice cream.
But another manufacturer has come up with something that has really sent our taste buds into spasm – lobster-flavoured ice cream. Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium buy cooked lobster meat from a local lobster pound, chop it up, butter it, and fold it into the ice cream to produce their much sought after concoction.
But where will it end? Perhaps one of our more avant garde Norfolk ice cream dairies will try a daring new line flavoured with local Cromer crabs!
The thinking drinker's guide to alcohol
Recently a couple of us from the office went up to Edinburgh for four nights of madness at the Fringe Festival. We managed to see 19 shows in all.
Of course we never really leave work behind us so decided to see what drinks writers Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham were up to. They were performing a show they had written called The Thinking Drinker’s Guide to Alcohol. It wasn’t just the offer of free drinks that attracted us to the show!
They did have a great selection from vodka, gin, tequila, absinthe and spiced rum. Sadly there was no whisky as non of the Scottish distillers would supply them with free samples.
Actually it was a light-hearted look at the history of alcohol in an effort to educate us to drink more but drink better. And I think they succeeded. A good laugh was had by all!
We thought everyone had seen the Charlie Sheen “Bi-Winning” music video. Apparently not. It appeared during the massive coverage of the drug-fuelled star some months ago. It’s compiled using clips of various recent Sheen interviews, with golden quotes such as, “if I am on a drug, it’s called Charlie Sheen”, and his now infamous response to accusations that he may be bi-polar: “I’m bi-winning”. It’s a great interview, but it’s an even better pop song.
“Songify this” are, from what we gather, a couple of guys that create songs from news footage, interviews, whatever, and run them through some kind of auto-tune processor. The result? The most absurdly hilarious two minute pop videos. First there was, “Hide your Kids, Hide your Wife”, a tune made using clips from a Texan news station report of a flat break-in. But it’s all about the Sheen. “I’m a total fricking rock-star from Mars … borrow my brain you’d be like, ‘Dude, can’t handle it’”. This interview was destined to be a song, and what a song it is! If you don’t know what on earth we’re talking about, watch it. Even if you do, watch it again. It’s had all of us at the Publicity Works in stitches.